Either way, his image, like a giant puppeteer, seems to watch benignly over the piece and our participation in it; this reinstates a sense of a center, whose elimination seems to be the artist's goal.

The noctambulo watched benignly, perhaps pityingly.

Eight year old Sachiko periodically sees a silent, giant-sized double of herself which mimics or benignly watches her.

Jared Munro Fraser had stood by me, watching benignly the flow of passing seaborne wealth, some of it his.

Two older people sat at their places at the table and watched benignly.

Most of America's friends watch benignly.

The Greek's friends at his previous table watched benignly; and the phalanx of small boys switched support.

He watches benignly while our little dog Sticky struggles to drag away his bone as if it were a felled redwood.

Even her parents watched benignly.

Watching benignly at every step, she was always ready to order her robot servants to help.